Clothes-pounder.



L. E. VAN LANDINGHAM. CLOTHES POUNDER,

APPLICATION PIDB'DKAPR. 1*,"1909.

935,949, Patented 00$. 5. 909.

@FFRE CLOTHES-POUNDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 14, 1909.

Patented Got. 5, 1909. Serial Nd 489,937.

To all whom it may concern:

Be'it 'known that- I, Lewis E. VAN LAND- INGHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paris, in the county of Lamar and State or" Texas, have invented certain new and. useful Improvements in Clothes-Pound ers, of wl'iich. the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

- trated in the drawings, in which Figure 1'. is a vertical section through my improved clothes pounder, Fig. 2 is a bottom plan View, and Figs. 3 and i are respectively, detail sectional and plan views of a slightly modified form of the invention.

Referring more particularly to the drawings 1 denotes a cone-shaped body having an open bottom and a closed top from which projects a tubular socket 2 for the reception of a handle. The latter is not illustrated and may. be secured in the socket in any suitable manner. Formed in the cone-shaped body 1 at a suitable distance from its bottom. edge is an annular series of openings 3 and secured in said body at a suitable distance above said openings 3 is a horizontal partition 4 adapted to divide the body into upper and lower compartments or chambers 5, (3; These chambers are m comn'nnncatioir through an opening 7 formed centrally in t partition 4: and also through an annular es" of passages 8 formed by semi-cylinrieal tubes 9 secured to the inner face of lower portion or the cone-shaped body and having their open upper ends prothrough the partition t and their open lower ends terminating a suitable dis tance from thebottom edge of the body 1. Instead of making tubes 9 of semi-cylin drical shape they may be made of semiconieal shape as shown at. 10 in Fig. 4C of the drawings, in which case the small ends of said tubes are turned downwardly and their large ends are in communication with the upper chamber or compartment 5. Any number of tubes 9, 10 may be arranged around the body and they are preferably disposed at points midway between the openings 3 shown more clearly in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

It will be noted that the upper chamber 5 is closed at its top and is only open at the center of the bottom and at points around its lower edge so that it is adapted to con,- tain soap which may he cutin pieces and readily inserted through the central openin 7.

in ope 'ation the pounder is moved up and down in the water. over the clothes by means of a handle secured in the socket 2 and when the cone-shaped"body 1 is moved downwardly the air within the same will be compressed'thereby forcingthe water through the clothes to remove the dirt and other impurities there 'rom. lVater in circulating through the chamber 5 will take up the soap so that suds will be formed and will be forced by the device through the clothes.

.lVhen the body 1 is raised the suction will tend to draw thewater through the clothes. Having thus described the invention, what is claimed it; l

The herein described clothes pounder comprising a cone-she Jed body having an open bottom and a closed top, a straight cylindrical tube projecting from said closed top of the body and forming a handle receiving socket,

. a fiat horizontally disposed partition secured in the body beta-teen its topand bottom to divide it into upper and lower compartments, said partition having a central opening and an annular series of openings in its edge, curved semi-tubular members secured to the inner face'ot the cone'body and arranged in the lower compartment, the ends of said members being open and the upper ends extending through the openings in the edge of said partition and the wall of the lower compartment being provided with an annular series of openings, the last mentioned openings being arranged between the semitubular members, as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses. LllWlS E. VAN LANDlNGllAlll. Witnesses J. F. GnssoN, C. I. BROAD. 

